ADVANTAGES OF HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY
1) Comfort of home - A sick, injured or ageing person already has enough to worry about, allowing them to stay in the comfort of their own home given them a sense of comfort and normalcy.
2) Privacy and familiarity - Home health care offer privacy with no strangers sharing a room and having a company with familiar people and things are important for recovery.
3) Quality of care - Without being distracted with other demands as they would be in clinics and one on one attention which provides physical and emotional benefits.
4) Safer from infections - These can be especially dangerous to someone with a weakened immune system to visit the clinic daily for physical therapy.
5) Faster progress - Mainly because of the personalized care you received from in home therapy actually boost the progress of healing.
DISADVANTAGES OF HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY
1) Additional Costs -The major drawback of physical therapy for seniors at home is that it is generally more expensive than clinical therapy.
2) Limited equipment - Many of larger machines and tools used for physical therapy are not available to in - home Patients so, the therapist in home often forced to be Creative with equipment at home.
ADVANTAGES OF CLINICAL PHYSIOTHERAPY
1) Full assessment can easily be carried out with the help of various instruments e.g -goniometry (helps to check R.O.M of particular joints).
2) Larger modalities can easily be used for treating the various conditions e.g - (short wave diathermy, long wave diathermy).
3) Clinical therapy is cheaper than an extended home therapy.
DISADVANTAGES OF CLINICAL PHYSIOTHERAPY
1) Environmental stresses -Clinical physical therapy can be stressful and clinics are often noisy and crowded the last thing you and your loved one need is stress when trying to recover from a physical injury or other conditions.
2) Personalized care should be affected and patient may have to deal with certain distraction of traditional workplace so,many of the patients feels quality of care reduces.